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scraggy

[skrag-ee] / ˈskræg i /






















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Clambering up a scraggy path on a hill looking over the foggy city of Lima, Justina Flores is trying to figure out what she's going to cook today.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2022

Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures of tall, elegantly scraggy humans loom large in people’s minds.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2022

Unaccountably angry and smug, the scraggy Smithers is Brutus’s cynical, conniving cohort.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 3, 2017

Trim the chicken thighs of scraggy bits of skin.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2016

The old people in the bed all leaned forward, craning their scraggy necks.

From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl